Journal Entry:

Imagine that you heat water over a campfire. 1. How can you tell that energy is transferred to the water? 2. How can you measure the amount of energy transferred to the water? 3. How can you measure the amount of energy one stick transfers to the water when it burns? 

 

Learning Intentions

Closing Task:

You can write you pre-lab to compare heat transfer during combustion of different fuels.

Content Standards being covered in this unit:

Student can identify types of energy and explain energy changes.

Students can create a computational model to calculate the change in the energy of one component in a system when the change in energy of the other component(s) and energy flows in and out of the system are known (HS-PS3-1 and CCC Energy and Matter)

Students can develop a model to illustrate that the release or absorption of energy from a chemical reaction system depends upon the changes in total bond energy.(HS-PS1-4 and CCC Energy and Matter) .

Students can develop and use models to illustrate that energy at the macroscopic scale can be accounted for as a combination of energy associated with the motions of particles (objects) and energy associated with the relative position of particles (objects).(HS-PS3-2 and CCC Energy and Matter)

Students can plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that the transfer of thermal energy when two components of different temperature are combined within a closed system results in a more uniform energy distribution among the components in the system (second law of thermodynamics) (HS-PS3-4 and CCC Energy and Matter)